File:Drawing, Valley of El Arabah, February 21, 1868 (CH 18199691-2).jpg

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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Drawing, Valley of El Arabah, February 21, 1868   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford New York City
Work location
Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
Title
English: Drawing, Valley of El Arabah, February 21, 1868
Description
English: The plain is shown in the distance against a background of mountains with Mount Hôr at the extreme right. A valley leads backwards to the plain, in the fore and middle grounds. A river bed winds through it, a road along the hillside at right. Dromedaries and men are shown upon it. Inscribed figures.
Date 21 February 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-02-21T00:00:00Z/11
Medium graphite, brush and white gouache on gray wove paper
Dimensions

27.3 x 43.8 cm (10 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.)

Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1917-4-583
Credit line Gift of Louis P. Church
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Bottom left: "Valley of El Arabah"/ Feb. 21st 68 corrected from "20st" to "21st"

Center: "2 Mt Hor / 3 Dry sandy bed white / 4 gold sandy color / 5 Golden Brown / 6 Richer redder Brown / 7 Plain greyer and whiter / Mountains lovely blue over shadowed by / a word struck out / clouds and streaked with shadows / Cloud shadows on plain dark purple. Snow thin on mountains occasional / brilliant gleam. Light on mountains like opalescent fire".

Inscribed in graphite at lower left: Valley of El Arabah / Feb. 21st 68; various color notations at lower center.

  • Country: United States
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